Libraries

Merav Mack, Benjamin Balint. Jerusalem: City of the Book. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. 272 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-22285-2.

Reviewed by Jordan Finkin (Hebrew Union College) Published on H-Judaic (July, 2020) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

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Michael Lapidge. The Anglo-Saxon Library. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. 424 pp. $55.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-923969-6.

Reviewed by Elaine Treharne (Florida State University) Published on H-Albion (September, 2010) Commissioned by Margaret McGlynn

Recovering the Past: The Anglo-Saxon Library

Shamil Jeppie, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, eds. The Meanings of Timbuktu. Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa Press, 2008. xiii + 375 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7969-2204-5.

Reviewed by David Robinson Published on H-SAfrica (January, 2009) Commissioned by Peter C. Limb

Timbuktu and Beyond

Peter Vodosek, Wolfgang Schmitz. Bibliotheken, Bücher und andere Medien in der Zeit des Kalten Krieges. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005. 216 S. EUR 59.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-447-05287-0.

Reviewed by Jens Gieseke (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam) Published on H-German (May, 2007)

The Cold War in Libraries

Werner Schochow. BÖ¼cherschicksale: Die Verlagerungsgeschichte der PreuÖŸischen Staatsbibliothek--Auslagerung, ZerstÖ¶rung, Entfremdung, RÖ¼ckfÖ¼hrung, dargestellt aus den Quellen. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2003. xv + 328 pp. EUR 48.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-11-017764-0.

Reviewed by John Rutledge (Davis Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Published on H-German (October, 2005)

Christine Stilwell, Athol Leach, Simon Burton. Knowledge, information and development: An African perspective. Peitermarizburg: School of Human and Social Studies, 2001. ix + 247 pp. R153.90 (paper), ISBN 978-0-620-26639-0.

Reviewed by Kwasi Darko-Ampem (Department of Library Services, University of Botswana) Published on H-SAfrica (May, 2002)

Nicholson Baker. Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper. New York: Random House, 2001. xii + 370 pp. $25.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-375-50444-0.

Reviewed by Mark Lambert (Special Collections and Government Documents Librarian, Fred Parks Law Library, South Texas College of Law, Houston, Texas) Published on H-Law (June, 2001)

Double Fold: Double Trouble